Domestic Violence: Dysfunctional Families

Dysfunctional families start somewhere.
Domestic violence has been receiving a lot of media over this past year (Robison). The media has shown how celebrities such as star football players and fame crazed people in the music industry indulge in violent behavior towards others. The consequences are rarely as harsh as they should be, community service after rearranging your partners entire face, Getting suspended from games after brutally beating your spouse. Media portrays the African American males as the most violent race. Even though within a house hold domestic violence can stem from other directions. Domestic violence is but may not be the most harmful thing taking place in one’s family. Domestic violence is only one sign of a dysfunctional
This means that one person holds the power by using physical, emotional, spiritual, financial and sexual abuse to force the victim into submission. Abusers can be male or female. It’s all about power and control. According to the article Talking About Domestic Abuse and Healthy Relationships, “There are some signs that women and men should pay attention to that may be red flags that there partners or parents are on the verge of domestic violence such as, parents not taking “no” for an answer, He/she monopolizes all your time and becomes jealous when you spend time with others, He/she is passionate and closed minded about specific topics or how things should be” (Hunter). This article shows that those who commit Domestic Violence have some type of insecurities, and they don’t know how to deal with them so they take it out on
For instance a girl I know that was in a foster care and her appointed mother would constantly physically assault her. My peer stated that she recalls times when her “savor” became “more like the monsters most kids feared at her age”. Her abuse went as far as her mother stripping her of all her clothes and beating her or when the assumption was that she took something, her “Foster Monster” would grab household objects such as wooden spoons, belts, fly swatters, etc. to whoop my peers’ hands till they were swollen and bruised. She states that looking back she now realizes that it wasn’t anything that she actually was doing wrong and no she wasn’t a bad child. But there was something that her appointed “savor” lacked and she was just at the hand of her wrath.